Qing (Ken) Yang

  • Distinguished Engineering Professor
  • Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering
  • Phone: 401.874.5880
  • Email: qyang@uri.edu
  • Office Location: Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering, Rm 407
  • Website
  • ResearchGate

Research

  • Computer Architectures
  • Hardware/Software Designs for AI
  • Machine Learning
  • Data Storage
  • Computer Network

Education

  • Ph.D., Computer Engineering, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, 1988
  • M.A., Electrical Engineering, University of Toronto, 1985
  • B.S., Computer Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, 1982

Selected Publications

Xu Z, Yu M, Yang Q, Jeong Y, Wei T. A Novel FPGA Simulator Accelerating Reinforcement Learning-Based Design of Power Converters. FPGA’23: The  2023 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays, 2022. doi: 10.1145/3543622.3573136
Xu Z, Yang K, Wei T. A Novel Interconnection Architecture for Secured Die-to-Die Communication in System-in-Package. 2022 IEEE International Conference of Networking, Architecture and Storage (NAS), 2022; 1-7. doi: 10.1109/NAS55553.2022.9925351
 Karakuş E, Bruckner M, Wei T, Yang Q. In-Sensor Neural Network Preprocessing for ADAS Computer Systems. 2022 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture and Storage (NAS), 2022; 1-8. doi: 10.1109/NAS55553.2022.9925497
Xu Z, Mauldin T, Yang Q, Wei T. Highly Scalable Runtime Countermeasure Against Microprobing Attacks on Die-to-Die Interconnections in System-in-Package. FPGA ‘22: The 2022 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays, 2022. doi: 10.1145/3490422.3502334
Xu Z, Mauldin T, Yang Q, Wei T. Runtime Detection of Probing/Tampering on Interconnecting Buses. 2021 IEEE 29th Annual International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), 2021. doi: 10.1109/FCCM51124.2021.00038
Yang J, Pei S, Yang Q. WARCIP: write amplification reduction by clustering I/O pages. The 12th ACM International Conference, 2019. doi: 10.1145/3319647.3325840
Li D, Wang Y, Xu B, et al. PIPULS: Predicting I/O Patterns Using LSTM in Storage Systems. 2019 International Conference on High Performance Big Data and Intelligent Systems (HPBD&IS), 2019. doi: 10.1109/HPBIDS.2019.8734567
Pei S, Yang J, Yang Q. Registor: A Platform for Unstructured Data Processing Inside SSD Storage. ACM Transactions on Storage, 2019; 15(1), 1-24. doi: 10.1145/3310149
Pei S, Yang J, Yang Q. REGISTER: A Platform for Unstructured Data Processing Inside SSD Storage. The 11th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference, 2018. doi: 10.1145/3211890.3211900
Li D, Yang Y, Weijun L, Yang Q. CISC: Coordinating Intelligent SSD and CPU to Speed Up Graph Processing. 2018 17th International Symposium on Parallel and  Distributed Computing (ISPDC), 2018. doi: 10.1109/ISPDC2018.2018.00029
Li D, Wu F, Weng Y, Yang Q. HODS: Hardware Object Deserialization Inside SSD Storage. 2018 IEEE 26th Annual International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), 2018. doi: 10.1109/FCCM.2018.0003
Chen Z, Pei S, Tang B, et al. A distributed optical fiber sensing system for data center thermal monitoring. Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace systems, 2018. doi: 10.1117/12.2285075

Recent Grants

8/27/2022. PI. National Science Foundation. “CYPHER: CISE-CCF-SHF: Introducing a New In-Sensor Computing Architecture for Intelligent 3-D Imaging Systems.”
7/29/2022. PI. National Science Foundation. “CYPHER: CISE-CCF-SHF: Introducing a New In-Sensor Computing Architecture for Intelligent 3-D Imaging Systems.”
7/19/2021. PI. National Science Foundation. “Introducing A New In-Sensor computing Architecture for Intelligent 3-D Imaging Systems.”

Patents

  • Yang KQ, Inventor; Western Digital Technologies Inc., Assignee. Apparatus, Systems, and Methods for Data Recovery. US Patent 9535799. January 3, 2017
  • Ren J, Yang KQ, Fedynyshyn GE, Inventors; Western Digital Technologies Inc., Assignee. Systems and Methods for Cache Coherence Protocol. US Patent 9298624B2. March 29, 2016
  • Yang Q, Inventor; Western Digital Technologies Inc., Assignee. Storage of Data Reference Blocks and Deltas in Different Storage Devices. US Patent 9176883. November 3, 2015
  • Yang QK, Cheng R, Inventors; Rhode Island Board of Education, Indiana University Research and Technology Corp, Assignees. Multiferro-Heterostructure Composition Having Tunable Magnetic Coupling at Room Temperature. US Patent 9130144B2. September 8, 2015
  • Yang QK, Xiao W, Ren J, Inventors; Rhode Island Board of Education, Assignee. Method and Apparatus for Maximizing Data Recoverability Using Coupling Updates by Parties. US Patent 8862842B2. October 14, 2014
  • Sum Y, Yang Q, Xiao W, Liu Y, Inventors; Rhode Island Board of Education, Assignee. Systems and Methods for Distance Estimation Between Electronic Devices. US Patent 8611260. December 17, 2013
  • Yang Q, Xiao W, Inventors; Rhode Island Board of Education, Assignee. Systems and Methods for Recovering Information from NAND Gates Array Memory Systems. US Patent 8327182B2. December 4, 2012
  • Yang QK, Inventor; Rhode Island Board of Education, Assignee. Data Retrieval System and Method that Provides Retrieval of Data to Any Point in Time. US Patent 8239706B1. August 7, 2012
  • Yang QK, Inventor; Rhode Island Board of Education, Assignee. System and Method for Maintaining Redundant Storages Coherent Using Sliding Windows of Eager Execution Transactions. US Patent 8140772. March 20, 2012
  • Yang Q, Inventor; Rhode Island Board of Education, Assignee. Cache Architecture for a Processing Unit Providing Reduced Power Consumption in Cache Operation. US Patent 7966452B2. June 21, 2011
  • Yang Q, He X, Inventors; Rhode Island Board of Education, Assignees. SCSI-to-IP Cache Storage Device and Method. US Patent 20080010411. May 31, 2011
  • Yang QK, Inventor; Rhode Island Board of Education, Assignee. Data Recovery System and Method Including a Disk Array Architecture that Provides Recovery of Data to Any Point of Time. US Patent 7730347B1. June 1, 2010
  • Yang Q, Li J, Inventors; Rhode Island Board of Education, Assignee. Remote Online Information Back-up System. US Patent 7177887. February 13, 2007

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